These American skillet lamb chops are made stove top in the skillet with browned cipollini onions. Topped with a fresh tarragon honey mustard sauce, they’re a bright, refreshing and incredibly quick dinner!

And just like that we’re into February. Month of cutesy heart desserts, chocolate galore, the red velvet (<–gross) takeover and…lamb?

Yep, lamb.

I’m so excited to be working with the American Lamb Board this year to share recipes, tips and info all about this delicious meat.

I feel like there’s definitely this stigma of lamb being complicated or intimidating and as a long time lamb lover, I want to help dispel that misconception because it couldn’t be further from the truth!

My lamb journey started way back in the day with yearly trips around Easter time to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx to procure the best roast we could find for the holiday (along with the obvious cannoli I’d of course insist we grab from the many a bakeries down there).

Marrying a Greek and many Greek festival celebrations later, the lamb love has remained strong straight through.

I also don’t think people realize that lamb can be a great source of lean protein (in cuts like leg, loin and rack) with a healthy dose of omega-3 fats (5x more than beef per serving!), making it a great all-the-time option, not just a holiday celebration meal like these skillet lamb chops and cipollini onions.

If you’re still sitting there thinking “nope, still intimidated!” let’s walk through this one.

From prep start to on the tabled finished (ok, minus the annoyingly long time cipollini onions can take to peel – they’re lucky they’re cute), this skillet lamb chop meal is done in 35 minutes.

That’s it!

Stove top skillet meals are where it’s at and that doesn’t change with lamb.

The lamb and onions basically brown deliciously in some olive oil, butter, salt and pepper and then come to life with the addition of the tarragon honey mustard sauce.

Tarragon is one of those herbs that I don’t use often but when I do I always say to myself “damn, this is delicious, why don’t I use it more often?!” I love it as the fresh herb in this simple turmeric chicken salad.

The sauce is sweet, bright, herby, refreshing and mustardy all at once and I promise you’ll be wanting to douse anything and everything (not just the lamb!) you can find with it.

To celebrate the month of love, the American Lamb Board is hosting Lamb Lovers Month.

With a fun Lamb Lovers Lib on their site, you determine your language of love. Are you a “Classic Romantic”, a “Homebody Lover” or “Looking for Love”?

Fill out the fun mad-lib style questionnaire and you’ll find out! With your results, you’ll get a recipe that embodies your love category and be entered to win a prize in your category, winners picked weekly!

As evidenced by the fact that when I made these skillet lamb chops and cipollini onions I invited my parents over for a low key dinner by the fire with some delicious red wine in hand, I’m definitely a “homebody lover”, no questions asked.

These skillet lamb loin chops are made stove top in the skillet with browned cipollini onions. Topped with a fresh tarragon honey mustard sauce, they're a bright, refreshing and incredibly quick dinner!

Prep Time10 minutes

Cook Time25 minutes

Total Time35 minutes

Ingredients

For the lamb and onions:

6 American lamb loin chops

about 15 cipollini onions, peeled

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon butter

kosher salt and black pepper

For the tarragon honey mustard sauce:

1 1/2 tablespoons dijon mustard

1 1/2 tablespoons stone ground mustard

1 tablespoon white wine vinegar

1 tablespoon honey

zest of 1 lemon

1 clove garlic, chopped

1/3 cup fresh tarragon

3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

Place the olive oil and butter for the lamb chops in a large skillet over medium-high heat.

Liberally season the lamb chops with salt and pepper.

Once hot, add the onions to the skillet and let brown on one side, about 3-5 minutes. Flip onions over, cover the skillet and let brown on the other side for another 3-5 minutes.

Remove lid from the skillet, place the lamb chops among the onions and cook for about 3-4 minutes per side for medium rare.

Make the sauce by combining all the ingredients except the olive oil in a food processor. With the processor running, drizzle the olive oil in and process until well blended.

Serve the lamb chops and onions with the sauce.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

6

Serving Size:

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Great recipe Gina! My wife and I loooove lamb, and take every opportunity to cook it , especially when a new take on it comes up. I’d have to say the tarragon sauce was new for both of us, but did not disappoint (how do you get it so green though?) Been a great year on RTtK so far!